Skype Data Usage

Hi folks,
Computer dummy here.
Data Usage
Calling others who also have Skype is free, that I know. What about the data usage? I mean, how do I check how much data I use if I chat for 30 minutes?
Group Calling
Is it free to have group calling, say I want to add two other callers who also have Skype, to chat at the same time?
Thank you in advance,
Kwei1955

Ditto. Skype is sucking the data bank dry.

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John,
With due respect that is a question you should be asking on a Skype forum. I also think you should ask your ISP too, they may have other users that use SKYPE and know how much bandwidth it uses.

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I live in the US and received a skype call from a buddy in Greece. We're both using our iPhones. I'm on 3G...he is on wi-fi. We had a 5min call, but when I check AT&T data usage, I don't see any data usage that reflects my skype call using 3G. How is that?

From the call receivers point of view, a Skype call to a mobile or landline appears to be just another phone call, and is subject to any local charges you may have to pay to receive calls (you'll probably pay to receive calls if you were outside your home country). A Skype call doesn't require the person called to have Skype installed, or to have a data connection, as the routing of the call is done via the Internet, but ultimately the call is connected the same way as any other call - through the telecoms network.
If you call someone, you'll need the WiFi connection or 3G to make the call, in which case it'll show up as data usage if 3G is used.
You'll probably find that your Greek friend will pay a small charge per minute to Skype (perhaps a few cents of a Euro per minute) to make the call, but it is very cheap, even to international mobiles. Skype in turn may pay a fraction of this charge to AT&T to connect the call for you, and to your iPhone it'll probably look like it's a local call rather than an international one.
Check out the Skype pages for more info on how this works.
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A couple times I have noticed the 4 buttons at the bottom of my phone (Menu/Back/Home) start blinking or flashing. Is this the phone trying to tell me something or a glitch of sorts? I know one time I had a text message that I hadn't noticed had come in, the other, I think I had a missed call, but not 100% sure but have noticed it a couple times when a phone call was coming in and then one day, as I moved the phone away from my ear to hang up on a phone call I had been on, they were blinking. No logic or pattern to the occurrences that I've noticed.
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yes, you are correct, the phone comes with a bunch of apps that you may never use and can not remove them.
I went a few rounds with verzion several times, they basically say its there if you want to use it.
yes, you PAID for a phone you have little control over and they FORCE you to run apps (ever notice that skype runs a service that auto restarts if you kill it?). they say it's a small amout of resources and it's there if you want to use it.
Like you, I don't want to use it and I want it gone but alas Verizon says I must have it and it must run!
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Assuming that DonXX means 'monitor' rather than 'manage', my experience may be of relevance.
I have a data usage problem with my iPhone 4. It started for me when I 'upgraded' to ioS 6. This may or may not be a coincidence. I went from an average monthly data usage of 150MB/month (a 2 year average) to 8.1 GB up/download in 28 days. To try and track down which app is The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, I've just installed the Onavo Count app. This claims to monitor the data usage of each app. My sights at the moment are on Skype. I only use iCloud for Calendar syncing.

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Hi all.
I'm in Canada, have a 3G iPad and had a 250MB data plan with Rogers. That 30-day plan went from June 2 to July 2.
This being the first month, I monitored data usage fairly closely and was surprised at how slowly my data balance was going down, throughout the month.
However, my balance apparently went from 20 MB yesterday to 0 MB this morning, although I didn't use the 3G network yesterday (I was at home and hardly used the iPad which was connected via WiFi anyway).
When I asked Rogers if there was a way to get a detailed history, their rep seemed confused and said to look on the iPad; of course, the iPad only gives the balance, not the history.
Does anyone know if there's a way to get the history (such as is available on Skype, for instance)?
Thanks!

Can't you access such a history online via rogers.com?
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MiFi Data Usage Analysis?

Our monthly data usage continues to explode and there doesn't appear to be a way to figure out what is driving the amount of data... Verizon has a data usage report that shows GB/MB at certain times of the day, but those times apear to be "groupings" of data usage vs. actually coinciding with actual usage. For example, if one son is doing XBox-Live thru the MiFi, while his mom is "Skyping" with a friend at a similar time, how can I know what's driving the most data? We live in a rural community with no cable, no DSL, no FIOS, no nothing - except HughesNet Satellite (which still is too slow and not recommended for XBox-live type usage anyway) or the MiFi. But I want to figure out what types of usage drive the highest amounts of data, and the Verizon analysis tools don't seem to help. Anybody have any recommendations?

Hello,
To understand the actual impact of your data usage habits you will have to conduct some experiments. First step is to isolate each type of usage by itself when no one else is using the MiFi. Check your data usage to get a baseline. Consume that data for an hour or so to get a good sample. When you are done check with Verizon again over the next 30 minutes to see how much your data went up (data reports are delayed). Rinse and repeat for any application you are concerned about. I'd suggest doing this for each application at least 3 times so you can feel confident in your results. Skyping may be hard to do for an hour so I would suggest testing everything else first and applying what is left as your Skype data consumption.
That being said I would assume that Skype would be your biggest data drain. Streaming audio and video definitely are the best ways to chew through a data plan at any given time. Although you may suspect Xbox to be the same each game is different. Some games only send small pieces of information across the Internet and are very data plan friendly. Other games that stream the entire game across the Internet are not.
Trial and error and the process of elimination are your friends. Given enough data you will be able to gauge your own usage habits and stay on top of your bill before it blind sides you at the end of the billing cycle.
Example of Good Habits:
Avoid Video, use low def options if necessary
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Disconnect from the device when you are not using it
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and I turned off cellular data and the first time I checked my usage I was freaked out!
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Is cellular data used at all during any kind of sync /iPhone/iTunes management? Is the cellular data usage reading under iPhone settings a reliable source to keep track of monthly data usage?
1) No.
2) It does provide an estimated usage, but it's not accurate. For accurate determination, you should check the remaining/used MBs from the carrier (most of the carriers provide this service for free).

Why do I have mysterious cellular data usage (Verizon) every 6 hours on all 3 of my iphone 5's?

I have recently uncovered mysterious cellular usage on three different iPhones. I am a Verizon customer and discovered this by examining the cellular data use logs. What I found are a long series of mysterious data usage logs. I have visited the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store 3 times now to log notes and discuss the issue. It is being escalated.
The characterstics are as follows:
All my family phones have the appropriate IOS and hardware updates (verified by the GeniusBar at my local Apple Store).
This is occuring across three phones, which happen to all be iphone 5. Two are 5 and the other a new 5s. We do have one iphone 4 in the family but the issue (so far as I can tell), is not happening on it.
One iphone 5 has IOS 7, the other IOS 6. The new 5s has of course IOS 7.
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Verizon allows access to 90 days worth of data logs, so I downloaded and analyzed them. This has been happening for at least 90 days. I have found 298 instances of mysterious use out of 500 total connections to cellular. A total of 3.5 GB of mysterious cellular data has been recorded as used in that 90 days by this phone alone. Only .6 GB of the total cellular data use is legitimate, meaning by the person.
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Before pressing in that direction, I am hoping someone reading this may recognize this issue as a possible iPhone 5 issue ... OR ... you, right now, go look at your data usage logs available through your carrier's web account, and see if you can pick out a pattern of mysterious use. Look especially at the early morning instances when you are most likely sleeping.
I am hoping this is a simple issue that has a quick resolution. I'm looking for the "ooohhh, I see that now ..." But I am starting to think this might be much bigger, but the fact is, most customers rarely or never look at their data usage details, much less discover mysterious use patterns.
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Thanks for your time

Thanks for the replies. It took a while not hearing anything so thought I was alone. I have done many of the suggestions already. The key here is that it occurs on both phones with apps, and phones still packaged in a box.
A Genius Bar supervisor also checked his Verizon data usage log and found the same 6 hour incremental use. Suprisingly, he did not express much intrigue over that. Maybe he did, but did not show it.
I think the 6 hour incremental usage is the main issue here. I spoke with Verizon (again) and they confirmed that all they do is log exactly when the phone connected to the tower and used data. The time it records is when the usage started. I also found out that the time recorded is GMT.
What is using data, unsolicited, every 6 hours?
Why does it change?
Why does it only happen on the iPhone 5 series and not the 4?
Since no one from Apple seems to be chiming in on this, and I have not received the promised calls from Apple tech support that the Genius Bar staff said I was suppose to receive, it is starting to feel like something is being swept under the rug.
I woke up the other day with another thought ... What application would use such large amounts of data? Well ... music, video, sound and pictures of course. Well ... what would someone set automatically that is of any use to them? hmmm ... video, pictures, sound. Is the iPhone 5 succeptible to snooping? Can an app be buried in the IOS that automatically turns on video and sound recording, and send it somewhere ... every 6 hours? Chilling. I noted that the smallest data usage is during the night when nothing is going on, then it peaks during the day. The Genius Bar tech and I looked at each other when I drew this sine wave graph on the log print outs during an appointment ...

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elko wrote:
After upgrading my ATT iPhone 4 to iOS5, I thought I would try out iCloud. I read somewhere, that it only syncs when it is connected to a powersource, and maybe I read that wrong, but I interpret it to mean when I am connected to either a power outlet or my computer using the cable. In otherwords, it wouldn't sync while I was out and about, away from my wireless home network, using the 3G network.
Is this not correct?
Because 2 days ago I racked up 80 MB of my data plan (not iCloud storage) while I slept at home, where I have a wireless network. I found this out by getting a text warning from ATT the next day, that I was close to using up my alloted 200MB data usage. I checked out my account online, and sure enough the 80MB transferred in the middle of the night. I didn't notice the "documents and data" setting was turned on so it looks like my apps updated while my phone was in sleep mode. Is there anything else it could be? I have everything iCloud turned off now and wondering if there is something I should know about to avoid wasting my data usage?
I think possibly you are thinking about wireless sync of iTunes. That can be set to happen when you connect to a charger etc, but that is not the same thing as you are descrbing with iCloud.

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Here is a screen grab of my data usage. As you can see, every day at 5:40am, there is a large spike in usage. My phone is not in use at that time:
There must be an explanation and resolution for this.

Hi KingPumpkin,
We always want your charges to be accurate! Smartphones are now able to tell you what applications are using your data. Please go to cellular>use cellualr data for>and this list tells you what data was billed to your cellular data. You could screen shot this list when your done using the phone in the evening. Then compare the screenshot in the morning to see what application data has changed. Data overages can sometime be billed in delay. Your device is set to pick up the strongest signal on the device, so if the Wi-fi server is weak or reboots at 5:40am every morning, then the device will quickly switch to back the Verizon Wireless network until the Wi-fi server comes back up. You could also eliminate these charges by turning off the cellular data every night since the device is connected to Wi-fi.
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PamelaF_VZW
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Okay so problem number 1 with my new iPhone 5s is data usage has spiked tremendously. I don't know why this is as for the last 2 years I have had an iPhone 4 and barely ever used 1GB a month. Now with my 2GB allowance I reached 90% used midway through the month. I have turned off the LTE and now have turned off cellular data completely and am only using wifi. I don't understand why my data usage has been so high this month since I am using my phone the same way. Is it the LTE?
My second problem is my phone has no voicemail. It tells me visual voicemail is unavailable and to call my voicemail. Except when I call my voicemail it asks me for a password. I have had my phone number for over 5 years and never had a password and now I can't get into my voicemail. I tried resetting the Network settings, that did not work. I have left my self voicemails and no notification even shows up. I called *86 to create a voicemail and it asks for a password which I never made.
I am EXTREMELY angry with Verizon's service at this point. I can not use my data until next month, and now I can't even receive voicemail messages. If someone could please tell me what is going on I would be appreciative.

To answer your first question, the answer is yes, it is the LTE. Your iPhone 4 could only connect to 3G and so therefore unable to transfer data as quickly as 4G on the 5s. So then you end up using more data than you have before.
And your second question. I am not sure as to why it's asking for a password if it never was before. You can reset your voicemail password if you log into your MyVerizon account. Hope that helps

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